PREP FLASHBACK : THIS WEEK IN COUNTY PREP SPORTS HISTORY

10 YEARS AGO

Despite a 15-14 loss to Edison in the regular season, Fountain Valley football players were confident going into the CIF Big Five Conference championship game between the schools. Confident enough to tell reporters.

What did it get them? Edison won, 14-0.

“There were a few clippings on the board this week,” Edison Coach Bill Workman said. “The press in general gave us the feeling we weren’t going to win. Fountain Valley did a lot of talking, and the players didn’t think it was called for. If they would have won and then started talking, fine. But you play the game first before you start talking about it.”

So what had Fountain Valley players said?

Tackle Duval Love: “We’re going to kill Edison. We want them.”

And posted in the Edison locker room was a newspaper clipping that had one paragraph circled: “Los Altos is the best team we’ve played this season,” said Mike Milner (Fountain Valley coach).

The victory gave Edison the county’s first back-to-back conference championships since Mater Dei accomplished the feat in 1966-67.

5 YEARS AGO

Newport Harbor’s Shane Foley passed for 381 yards in a CIF Central Conference semifinal to become the county’s career leader with 5,264, surpassing Capistrano Valley’s Burt Call (4,956 in 1981-83).

But Foley was overshadowed by La Quinta’s Bart Recktenwald, who rushed for 151 yards and two touchdowns and returned an interception 92 yards for another touchdown to lead the Aztecs to a 42-29 victory.

Foley was 36 for 55 with four touchdowns but also had three passes intercepted.

“It was more of a question of surviving than winning, the way Foley was playing,” La Quinta Coach Joe Zeno said. “But when a quarterback throws that much, sooner or later, he’s going to throw a bad pass. Fortunately, he threw a couple of bad passes.”

1 YEAR AGO

Repeat: Corona del Mar defeated La Quinta, 21-10, to win its second consecutive Division VI championship. Sophomore quarterback Todd Kehrli completed 11 of 17 passes for 159 yards and a touchdown and ran for another score. Running back Brian Lucas rushed 20 times for 164 yards, 94 on a touchdown run on the first play from scrimmage of the second half.

Defeat: In the Division VIII championship, Orange High School was inches away from its first title since 1929. But with 54 seconds left at the 13-yard line, a fourth-down pass from Chris Thompson to Mark Kammerlohr was inches too long, and Trabuco Hills hung on, 13-7. “The play was executed well and I thought Mark was going to make the catch,” Orange Coach Tom Meiss said. “He made a nice cut, he just needed to be three inches taller.”

Repeat and Defeat: Paramount won its second consecutive Division III title by defeating El Toro, 26-20. The loss overshadowed a brilliant performance by Charger wide receiver Rob Johnson, the quarterback on this year’s team, who caught nine passes for 145 yards.

Researched by ARA NAJARIAN, Times Staff Writer